[MPlayer-users] mplayer, x264 and X11 BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)

[Adam Jacob Muller]

On Oct 30, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Adam Jacob Muller
> <lists-mplayer-users at adam.gs> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm getting no video (-fs gives black borders with the background
>> showing where video should be) with mplayer and with matroska-
>> containered x264 files
>>
>> I am using -vo xv and that works fine with other formats (avi/wmv/ 
>> flv/
>> mpg/others).
>> but with mkv files I get the errors below, if I switch to -vo x11 the
>> video does play, but with the associated huge performance issues.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas at all would be hugely appreciated!
>>
>> Mplayer is:
>> MPlayer dev-SVN-r27673-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
>
> Please SVN up, I think this problem is fixed. If it doesn't, then
> check if your graphic card has enough VRAM, and check what happens if
> you disable things like compiz/3d desktop effects...
>
> Guillaume

Hi Guillaume,		

What's "enough"
01:00.0 Display controller: 3DLabs Permedia II 2D+3D (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Accelgraphics Inc. AccelStar II
	Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-  
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-  
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
	Latency: 64 (48000ns min, 48000ns max)
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
	Region 0: Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Region 1: Memory at e2800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
	Region 2: Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]


I think it has *cough*16M*cough*

Right, i know I'm insane I guess, so I should just not expect it to  
work at all?, mplayer seems to handle decoding (if it is even decoding  
with this error) with no issues?

That said, mplayer and x11 are the only things running on this box  
(just x11, no window manager at all).

-Adam